Folks,

Heavy overcast in the morning made hard to locate a lot of butterflies yesterday, but when it cleared about lunchtime, the butterflies appeared. We covered a lot of ground on foot with 12 people (Nancy Baldwin, Charlie Cameron, Doug DeNeve, Pam DeNeve, Jane Fraytet, Jules Fraytet, Meghan Massey, Nancy Massey, Marianne Murphy, Jim Nottke, Elizabeth Riggs, Jonathan Worley). Most time spent at Allison Woods (waiting for some sun), Fort Dobbs Historic Park, Iredell Museum's 33 acres, and some roadsides west of I-77

Five new county records! Interesting that several species that we found in good numbers last year, we could not find this year (Red-Banded Hairstreak, Silvery Checkerspot, American Lady, Southern Broken-Dash) and yet we found 5 new species. Next year should be interesting.

Here are the totals:

1 Black Swallowtail
14 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
1 Spicebush Swallowtail
1 Cabbage White 5 Orange Sulphur (also 8 eggs)
1 Little Yellow [new county record!]
5 Sleepy Orange [new county record!]
1 Gray Hairstreak
66 Eastern Tailed Blue
7 Azure
6 Variegated Fritillary
3 Great Spangled Fritillary
12 Pearl Crescent
2 Question Mark
3 Painted Lady [new county record!]
9 Red Admiral
4 Common Buckeye
10 Red-Spotted Purple
16 Hackberry Emperor
4 Tawny Emperor
28 Carolina Satyr
1 Common Wood Nymph
29 Monarch (also 5 eggs)
11 Silver-Spotted Skipper
2 Hoary Edge
11 Southern Cloudywing
6 Common Checkered Skipper [new county record!]
140 Clouded Skipper
25 Least Skipper
2 Fiery Skipper [new county record!]
57 Sachem
13 Zabulon Skipper
1 Dun Skipper
2 Eufala Skipper

503 individuals
34 species

Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC 27040
nottke@ols.net